They had barely been in the forest for a day before something blew their team apart, Melanthe had tightened herself around Aldona’s torso, while wrapping a tail around Montgomery’s arm and Aldona was pretty sure that she had seen Azuloas do the same with Jakoba. “I hate this forest and everything about it!” Aldona growled in frustration, more than once they had walked past a small bone. Something that would belong to a child, a child that had been sent into these woods to die. Montgomery just looked at her, this forest had been around since before he left Sashan for Nestanha. It had been created as a barrier between Nestanha and their enemies, he had been there for the fence going up as the village got larger and the Mountain Clans refusing to create another one to torture their force

